Re: [HACKERS] RPM building (was regression on RedHat)

[Peter Eisentraut]

Thomas Lockhart writes:

> ?? I think we agree. It happens to be the case that slightly incorrect
> results are wrong results, and that full IEEE math conformance gives
> exactly correct results. For the case of date/time, the "slightly wrong"
> results round up to 60.0 seconds for times on an even minute boundary,
> which is just plain wrong.

Well, you're going to have to ask a numerical analyst about this.  If you
take that stance then -ffast-math is always wrong, no matter what the
combination of other switches.  The "wrong" results might be harder to
reproduce without any optimization going on, but they could still happen.

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Peter Eisentraut      [EMAIL PROTECTED]       http://yi.org/peter-e/


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